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K.J. Holmes (US)
K.J. Holmes is an independent dancer, singer, poet and body worker who has been exploring improvisation as process and performance since 1981. Her training began with ballet, modern dance and musical theater as well as judo, tai-chi and fencing. Studies of Ideokinesis with Andre Bernard in New York from 1980 - 83 led her to improvisation and new dance techniques. Her influences include Contact Improvisation, Body-Mind Centering , Yoga, Authentic Movement, Alexander and Feldenkrais techniques, Martial Dance, world vocal studies and contemporary dance and theater. She teaches and performs throughout the world (including the EDDC, Arnhem; Canaldanse, Paris; Buraco-Relacoes de Danca, Brazil; among other places) and has been honored to collaborate with Lisa Nelson, Karen Nelson, Steve Paxton, Simone Forti, Shelley Senter, Angie Hauser and Julie Carr, among others.
Holmes is a graduate of the certification program of the School for Body-Mind Centering, and has a private practice in Dynamic Alignment and Re-Integration in Brooklyn, New York, where she lives. She is adjunct faculty at NYU/ETW¨ and continues to teach in New York through Movement Research (where she was Artist in Residence 1993-94) and at The Trisha Brown Studios. She has studied vocally with Jeanette Lovetri and gypsy singer Ida Kelarova and currently studies vocal improvisation with Richard Armstrong and classical vocal technique with director/singer Judith Barnes of The Vertical Player Opera Company in Brooklyn where she choreographed Handel's opera Alcina spring 2001.
Holmes' commitment to the collaboration between dance and music continues to define and refine her practice of improvisation as a performance form and she has collaborated with such fine musicians as trumpeters Dave Douglas, Baikida Carroll and Roy Campbell; drummers/percussionists Susie Ibarra and Jim Santi Owen; bassist Santi De Briano; erhuist Zhang Xiao-Feng; cellists Andrew Kushin and Steve Banks; pianist Peter Jones as well as developing more set works such as Wreckage/and Salvage performed as a work in progress in January at Danspace Project, NYC, and Objects of a Borrowed Confession in collaboration with the work of poet Julie Carr.
Holmes is a graduate of the certification program of the School for Body-Mind Centering, and has a private practice in Dynamic Alignment and Re-Integration in Brooklyn, New York, where she lives. She is adjunct faculty at NYU/ETW¨ and continues to teach in New York through Movement Research (where she was Artist in Residence 1993-94) and at The Trisha Brown Studios. She has studied vocally with Jeanette Lovetri and gypsy singer Ida Kelarova and currently studies vocal improvisation with Richard Armstrong and classical vocal technique with director/singer Judith Barnes of The Vertical Player Opera Company in Brooklyn where she choreographed Handel's opera Alcina spring 2001.
Holmes' commitment to the collaboration between dance and music continues to define and refine her practice of improvisation as a performance form and she has collaborated with such fine musicians as trumpeters Dave Douglas, Baikida Carroll and Roy Campbell; drummers/percussionists Susie Ibarra and Jim Santi Owen; bassist Santi De Briano; erhuist Zhang Xiao-Feng; cellists Andrew Kushin and Steve Banks; pianist Peter Jones as well as developing more set works such as Wreckage/and Salvage performed as a work in progress in January at Danspace Project, NYC, and Objects of a Borrowed Confession in collaboration with the work of poet Julie Carr.
Photo: K.J. Holmes © David Bergé
